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- 0:08OK, I guess we're recording now. Welcome back to the Just in Time
- 0:10podcast. I'm your host, Justin.
- 0:12We've got will with us today again.
- 0:14How you doing? Let's talk about how you doing.
- 0:16We have finally made it, brother.
- 0:19It was like a slow, it was a slow burn at the first part of
- 0:22the summer, but it once like July hit, right?
- 0:26Yeah, August. You talk about when I say August
- 0:28is the fastest month of my life. August 2 and 26th.
- 0:32That was the fastest month of my life.
- 0:34Dude, it flew by. Well, you just thought you just
- 0:38getting to know your kids. Yeah.
- 0:40I'm man good but. You know, from one set of
- 0:45children to another set in the FCC, in the SEC, coaches and all
- 0:51of that want to, you know, talk about all of this.
- 0:55Steve Sarkisian going up and saying it's embarrassing and
- 0:58deplorable. Meanwhile, he's got one of the
- 1:01ex NFL players part of the lawsuit sitting on his roster as
- 1:04his backup all lineman. All right.
- 1:07You know, in the NCAA, like I saw, I sent you that clip from T
- 1:12Bob this morning. You know, T Bob, a Bear in
- 1:15Barcelona. Like he said, it's NCAA's mess.
- 1:19The only class that that ruling would have affected is the class
- 1:24of 2022 and they did it in June way after the draft.
- 1:29And they had no reason to believe that they weren't that
- 1:31they were going to be allowed to come back with eligibility.
- 1:33You know, and it's not guys who actually made a team and signed
- 1:40guys who went to multiple different mini camps and got cut
- 1:45and came back to is coming back. But we'll see how this cracks
- 1:48down. But all you, the SEC schools
- 1:51that want to put expel LSU from the SEC, please do.
- 1:59You're only hurting yourself. LSU is one of the top five
- 2:03worldwide brands in money. Our fans travel.
- 2:08Let's kick us out of let's first of all, let's talk about
- 2:11football. You kick us out of football.
- 2:13What are we going? To do go to the ACC where we'll
- 2:16kick teams like Clemson around and bully them and make it in
- 2:20the playoffs every year, please and thank you.
- 2:26And then what's going to happen to you all in baseball?
- 2:27LSU baseball literally built SEC baseball.
- 2:30The great late Skip Bertman built that.
- 2:33Our fans travel. What is Hoover, AL going to do
- 2:37economically when the LSU baseball team doesn't roll up in
- 2:41there for the SEC Championship tournament?
- 2:43That's right. So you're only hurting
- 2:45yourselves just because you're cowards and you're scared.
- 2:47So when it when I, when I see the term ex like expel, it's
- 2:51like I'm it brings you back to the elementary school.
- 2:54I'm like, what are we doing this grade school stuff?
- 2:56But come. On man.
- 2:57Yeah, like scared of this. Like expel like it's it's about
- 3:01the dollar with the business. Like, and my thing is it's just
- 3:05like I always, I've been aggravated with like this, this
- 3:09stuff bleeding up and there's so much going on, so much content
- 3:12and revolving around this type of stuff.
- 3:15But it's like, I mean, it's and I bring that up and I say that
- 3:19because, you know, earlier today I was looking at LSU Reddit.
- 3:22Somebody had posted NFL players on NCAA rosters.
- 3:26He said he would really like to get an LSU fans take on the
- 3:28situation. Are you guys for or against
- 3:31players coming back to college ball and then they have played
- 3:34or signed at a professional level in the US in their
- 3:36respective sport. The first response was doesn't
- 3:40really matter if we're for it or against it.
- 3:42It's being allowed by the courts.
- 3:44And those players that were deemed to have an extra
- 3:46eligibility or are free to sign with any team, you put any in
- 3:50caps. If the rules get laid out to
- 3:52where they're ineligible, they will just won't play.
- 3:55Simple as that. And I'm just replying, simple as
- 3:57that. I mean, like, it's just like and
- 4:00like my thing is like I always I always go back to this.
- 4:04It goes back to the NCAA. They always they come back to
- 4:08the same the same foundation is found.
- 4:11It starts at the top always. And the fact that McDonald.
- 4:15Was on then McDonald was on Fox News and they asked him about it
- 4:20and he said it's the fact that it's LSU doing it because Lane
- 4:25Kiffin is low hanging fruit right now with everything that's
- 4:29going on with around him. When there's programs all over
- 4:34the country and 300 student athletes named in this lawsuit
- 4:39that is going on against, you know, at the NCAA would have
- 4:45done their job in the beginning and made the rules black and
- 4:49white in name. The only class this new rule
- 4:53would have affected going into this year is the 2022 class.
- 4:58They would have just named them in the thing.
- 5:01None of this would be going on right now.
- 5:02Yeah, but they didn't. So they're well within their
- 5:07rights to want to come back to college.
- 5:10And to me, the biggest fraud is the Tennessee chancellor is the
- 5:13one that said the SEC can do their rules regardless of court
- 5:19rulings. OK, well then why is Trinidad
- 5:22Shambles playing at Ole Miss right now?
- 5:26That's the case. Yeah.
- 5:28You know, get over yourselves, grow up, stop being scared of
- 5:33actual competition in you know, because notices all the schools
- 5:37that have to play LSU this year on the schedule that are griping
- 5:40and complaining. Yep, that's something Scared
- 5:43said. You saying that?
- 5:44Yeah. But you know from the coaches
- 5:47have always complaints. Yeah, it's always something.
- 5:50It's like, it's like I do it. It's like a deaf ear to devil at
- 5:53this point. But you know, like I said, yeah,
- 5:58like I said, what the SCC is going to do, expel us, Please
- 6:01do. We'd go to ACC and run that
- 6:03conference and be in the playoffs every year and whoop up
- 6:06on Clemson like we could do this Saturday.
- 6:09You heard of that? Let us go to a lesser conference
- 6:13and be in the playoffs. Yeah.
- 6:15Better yet, we'll be with Notre Dame is to the north, to the
- 6:19South. We won't join a conference and
- 6:21we'll be independent and run run amok in automatically getting
- 6:25the playoffs being the top 12. Like like like I said man, just
- 6:31like it's you going to complete like always go get annoyed with
- 6:37like the same dialogues because it's all the blame shifting and
- 6:40you people put blame on the wrong things every single time.
- 6:44Like brother, like it is so nauseating.
- 6:46It is nauseating everyday. I'm not OK bro.
- 6:49I'm just ready to get to the scene.
- 6:51Instead of looking at Clinton and I mean LSU and everything,
- 6:57it's just I was watching this live the other day.
- 7:00I think it's the Walk it Off podcast.
- 7:03They were live on TikTok and they asked for, you know, fans
- 7:08or you know, people's thoughts and I said, look, to me, it's
- 7:12just distraction. It's the media and the SEC
- 7:15because they're used to Les Miles, Brian Kelly and Ed Ozer
- 7:20at times who let off field distractions get to them.
- 7:26You know, they are trying to they're scared of LSU because
- 7:31they know Lane Kiffin. Put together that roster in Lane
- 7:36Kiffin, scary, especially with Blake Baker at defense.
- 7:40They're scared of us, so they're trying to put all kind of
- 7:42outside noise, you know? And like Ben McDonald said Lane
- 7:48Kiffin's little hanging. Fruit, convenience scapegoat is
- 7:52what I call it. Yeah, yeah.
- 7:54But enough, you know, we'll just be a part of the IT.
- 7:57We're going to be a part of the solution right now, not the
- 8:00problem. And we will get into some of
- 8:04these LSU outlook before the first game of the season, you
- 8:07know, And I have to say, I'm impressed with what Kiffin did
- 8:10last Saturday. Yeah, I just saw that was a huge
- 8:13talk. Yes, like the.
- 8:15The walkthrough and everything. And you know, I like that.
- 8:18I like how they went from no detail was spared.
- 8:21You know, they went through and put the scout team in Clemson
- 8:26uniforms. They walked down Victory Hill
- 8:30with the band and the cheerleaders and The Golden
- 8:32Girls. They set off the team, the game
- 8:36day experience for those players.
- 8:38Semi because you know, if they would have told everybody about
- 8:41that before Saturday, you know, every single thing, I would have
- 8:44been out there. Goodness.
- 8:48You know, so that was kind of a warm up in LSU beat the scout
- 8:54team version of Clemson 86 to 18.
- 8:57And you know, I thought I'll give Clemson a little better,
- 9:02but I think I'm going to make my prediction.
- 9:03I think we're going to we're not going to go too crazy on him,
- 9:07but I'll give 42 to 15 is 2 to 15 because you know, Clemson
- 9:14starting a fresh a true freshman, huh, right.
- 9:18You know, all of this in all of this stuff that we did, I forgot
- 9:21to look up Clemson starting quarterback.
- 9:25I. Pulled up in.
- 9:28Greg Mcelweeb is on the fucking thing.
- 9:30Can't stain that guy. No, he can't take Alabama's
- 9:36thing out his mouth long enough to conform a complete, coherent
- 9:39sentence. Everything is LSU wins the
- 9:42national championship and he's sitting there.
- 9:47Shut up, nobody likes you. Go home, go back to Bam and cry.
- 9:50I know that's a hot take for some people but I just don't
- 9:55like the guy. The only reason that he was
- 9:57tolerable is when they had that. What was it out of pocket or
- 10:01something show. Yeah.
- 10:03Thinking out loud show on the SEC Network with him him and him
- 10:09and Swagu that's the only tolerable thing about him was
- 10:12his friends. OK, it's Christopher visitor
- 10:17some something like that. Sorry for Butcher that he only
- 10:22has one career start under his belt and he's walking into the
- 10:24real Death Valley look and I honestly don't think he's got
- 10:29that much behind him. They got Bryant Whisko right
- 10:31out, obviously. He's really real solid, so
- 10:35that's a big routine for them. He's a junior, you know, the
- 10:39restaurant, just a real fight. Could just fight out junior.
- 10:42Yeah, look, I think what it boils down to is physicality.
- 10:48And this isn't Brian a Brian Kelly coach football team.
- 10:51And y'all lost the worst coach in the history of LSU last year
- 10:55at y'all place where there was no LSU fan, drunk LSU fans
- 10:58screaming at you the whole game. I saw something on Instagram
- 11:02today where it talked about they put out the press credentials.
- 11:07This is going to be the most credentialed game in Tiger
- 11:10Stadium history. Nice.
- 11:13LSU football officials confirmed to ESPN that Saturday's season
- 11:17opening game against Clemson is the most media celebrity
- 11:22credentialed game in Tiger Stadium history.
- 11:24Lane Kiffins debut was going to be a wild scene in Death Valley
- 11:28to mark LSU's 102nd season in Tiger Stadium.
- 11:32The real Death Valley for all you Clemson fans.
- 11:36Man, look at that Clemson's roster.
- 11:39You know they have our last. They haven't coded they have
- 11:42like one, they have 4 new starters from the Trent from the
- 11:45portal, another couple but another 5 who are backups who
- 11:51are slated backups right now according to our lads.
- 11:53So obviously defense was their big strong suit last year even
- 11:57with Kate club and they coming like from last year's team.
- 12:00They were like they had like NFL defense last year.
- 12:04So but they have new starters. I got couple several juniors,
- 12:08what couple seniors, but I'm interested to see what they're
- 12:11going to look like They they have an experienced guys out of
- 12:13there while a lot of the offenses really not transfers
- 12:16they returning being. I think that's what's going to
- 12:20hold them up and not why I don't think Clemson will ever be a
- 12:23true national competitor and why I don't think in the grand
- 12:28scheme of things, I think it's going to be a lot like last
- 12:30year. We're not going to know what
- 12:31we're made of as the LSU Tigers until we get into that SEC
- 12:36competition. Yeah, because Dabo Sweeney
- 12:40refuses to adapt to the tons and hit the transfer portal.
- 12:44Yeah, and he's going with all in the times of transfer portal
- 12:47where teams are going and buying the best players in a
- 12:50university, who has the money to go do that?
- 12:54He refuses to go failing missing pieces like he had could have
- 12:57gone get an experienced quarterback into portal.
- 13:01Of course, they had so many of them.
- 13:04Instead, he's going to roll into LSU and Baton Tone Rouge.
- 13:09We're all kind of drunk Tiger fans for the first game of the
- 13:13season, which we haven't had a true home opener like this since
- 13:17the 20. 19 season. Was the first time we played a
- 13:21home game for a season opener that wasn't constricted to
- 13:24COVID. You know it's going to be wild.
- 13:28Game day is going to be there. Even some of my students are
- 13:30planning on getting out there at midnight after the football,
- 13:33after the Dutch Town game on Friday night, they're planning
- 13:36to leave there and go at midnight and go out to the
- 13:38tailgates to go to game day the next day.
- 13:41Yeah. They're already talking about
- 13:44that. It's going to be wild.
- 13:46I don't know if I trust the true freshman quarterback, whatever
- 13:51first time starting a kid with one start under his belt.
- 13:54I don't know if I trust that to go and start the season out.
- 13:56You know, I just the the strength for me just is their
- 14:00coach, regardless of how rigid they are, He is because he's
- 14:04rigid. I know they I know they have
- 14:06some transfers, but you know, he's not, you know, he's not
- 14:09crazy about that stuff. But but hey, listen, that's the
- 14:13only he's an he's an incredible coach, as stubborn as he is.
- 14:17But like, I know, like the the point spread right now is 10
- 14:211/2. I think me personally, I think
- 14:23even with all the momentum we have, I always look at, I always
- 14:27look at points. Points spreads are pretty steep,
- 14:31particularly for the point opponent like this.
- 14:34I feel comfortable. I I feel more comfortable about
- 14:37going into this game this year than I did last year because I
- 14:40had us losing last year. Yeah, you did a couple points.
- 14:44So I I feel more comfortable because of what we have, like
- 14:48the coach that we have and like Clemson or not, as they don't
- 14:52have Klubnik anymore, they don't have that NFL defense and we're
- 14:55playing at home, of course. So I feel more comfortable.
- 14:58I give us I give us an 8 point win because I want to see how
- 15:01how we mess offensively. I know Blake Baker, I'm
- 15:05confident in the defense. I mean, I've seen what their
- 15:07improvements in the last couple years, especially from last year
- 15:10and they have some dudes now like they have some dudes last
- 15:13year, but they got to do with this year too.
- 15:15Yeah, and I'm going to be out there screaming at the top of my
- 15:18lungs. I know you will.
- 15:20Good thing I got Monday off. I ain't going to have a voice
- 15:23when we go back to school. Well, for you buddy.
- 15:27You know, it's just here's the deal.
- 15:29Clemson doesn't have that little stupid ride the bus from one end
- 15:34of the stadium to the other other and waste everybody's
- 15:37time. Run down a hill and touch a
- 15:40rock. You don't have that at Death
- 15:42Valley. You got Colin.
- 15:44Baton Rouge at half time. We're doing a laser show.
- 15:47Yeah, I'm about to bring him the lace.
- 15:49Yeah. You've got a coach, a head coach
- 15:52who actually buys into the culture instead of coming up
- 15:56with a fake accent in his introductory thing, You know?
- 15:59And look, even more so to train Lane Kiffin, what Lane Kiffin
- 16:03did was he went and said, OK, Edo, the most Louisiana guy you
- 16:07could possibly think of, I want you to come back to the LSU
- 16:10Tigers and be all my staff. And Edo said, I'll be there, you
- 16:15know? And that to me, buying into the
- 16:17culture, even if we have a down season, I don't think there'll
- 16:20ever be a time again where we walk, go down to the Victory
- 16:23Hill, March down Victory Hill before a game.
- 16:27And we don't have fans out there like we do with Brian Kelly.
- 16:31Brian Kelly lost the fan base, the locker room, his job.
- 16:35Yeah, I think it's a good thing that we don't have CB yet.
- 16:37We're not contracting with CBS anymore.
- 16:44How funny would that have been though, if we were contracting
- 16:47with. CBS and.
- 16:48They would have stuck Brian Kelly on the game.
- 16:51Do you think I would? The amount of police escort that
- 16:56they would have to have around him would rival if like, Donald
- 16:59Trump went to a game or something.
- 17:01Yeah, listen. They had to ask if they can
- 17:04borrow the Secret Service to put him through the gates.
- 17:07I wouldn't put it best for that reason.
- 17:10I mean, he destroyed this. He destroyed.
- 17:12He did his best to destroy LSU. Yeah, but this like Sam, but
- 17:18yeah, it's a new start like Sam. I'm looking real quick.
- 17:21Obviously the all time you know LSU and Clemson has played a
- 17:25total of five times in their history against each other.
- 17:27LS we lead the series all time 4 to 1.
- 17:30Clemson's All they win came into Yeah, it was Clemson's all they
- 17:34win came in the 2012 season on New Year's Eve in the Peach Bowl
- 17:37by one point against us in Atlanta.
- 17:40So up until like, last year's game was the first ever time we
- 17:43played them in the regular season.
- 17:46So this will be the second time. So every other time was the
- 17:49playoffs. Yeah, look, I'm not even a bash
- 17:51from. I like the game as long as we
- 17:53win it. But I mean how I think it's a
- 17:57fun when you get these teams that out of conference, teams
- 18:00that you don't really play. I love it like that.
- 18:02In 2019, when Texas wasn't a part of the SEC, we went over
- 18:05there and played them, and then they pucked out and cowed out in
- 18:092020 and 2021 when they were supposed to come here, you know?
- 18:13Yeah, I'm, I'm a huge fan of it. Even back in 2024 when we played
- 18:17USCI think that was the first time we played them since like
- 18:21the the. It was UCLA.
- 18:23Yeah. Yeah, you.
- 18:24I taught USC in 24. Could we play in USC in Vegas?
- 18:27Did we? Yeah.
- 18:29Like the start of the season. In 2024, no.
- 18:31We played Florida State in UCLA. That that was that was 2022.
- 18:36In 2023 we played Florida State and like the neutral home, quote
- 18:40UN quote Homer homes. And in 2022, Florida State came
- 18:43to to New Orleans and we went to camp the World Stadium in 23 to
- 18:47play Florida State and in 24 we started in Las.
- 18:51Vegas, we did lose to those. Brian Kelly didn't lose to
- 18:55those. Yeah.
- 18:56So no, we we played USUCLAI think 20.
- 18:59One, we played UCLA in Arrows last year, and then we played
- 19:07them at home two years ago in the hottest game I've ever been
- 19:10to, Death Valley. Goodness, I was at work that
- 19:13day. I was because like that year,
- 19:15that season, they were playing like the games by the entrance
- 19:18door and like, and I was at work that day.
- 19:22I was like when I saw in passing, I was like, I know
- 19:25Goodwill. They do not have us in these
- 19:27purple jerseys with this heat 'cause I work, I work outdoors.
- 19:32I'm like, you got to be kidding me.
- 19:34I know it's tradition to wear purple and non conference home
- 19:36games. You got to put out the window
- 19:39that day. I.
- 19:40Went to that game and I left at halftime.
- 19:44I got. Home.
- 19:45I got home and the first thing they said was if it feels like
- 19:49temperatures on the sideline in the stands feel like 120 with
- 19:52the sun beating off the thing, we would never do another 2O
- 19:56clock game over here at 12 O clock game whatever time it was
- 20:00at. Least out there early in the
- 20:01season though. Yeah, but you know, that's on
- 20:05ABC and then that was their first year with the contract in.
- 20:08Yeah. I don't think they realized this
- 20:10wasn't some up north school where the sun don't beat down.
- 20:14This is the South, where the sun is incredible in the humidity,
- 20:18you know, but. Now, USC fans, I know you heard
- 20:22about that storyline with like, just like you got to whenever
- 20:28you get a chance. It's a big deal because they
- 20:30played San Jose, San Jose State last week, in week.
- 20:33Zero and. Like they I was one of the man.
- 20:36Now the game performance, Yeah. I do bonuses and you get 3
- 20:41points a week. Chances for three points a week,
- 20:45I picked three games of the week and put put them up on the board
- 20:48and you if you pick the winner, you get a bonus point, something
- 20:54quick, easy and fun. And somebody actually picked San
- 20:59Jose State to win and I was like, USC is normally trash as
- 21:03of as of late, but they ain't that trash.
- 21:05They'll win that game. They were, they were a big like
- 21:09they, they put the backups in that they they went like they
- 21:11were like 4226. They wasn't really that close,
- 21:14but because they just put the backups in this story, the story
- 21:18from that game was like the stadium was empty.
- 21:21Like this ain't the US. This ain't the USC we grew up
- 21:23on. We've like Reggie Bush, Madlina,
- 21:25Pete Carroll, but like, but they were making excuse because a lot
- 21:28of people said what's hot in LA? I'm like rather come to
- 21:31Louisiana, come to the. Swamp.
- 21:33Come on. Come to the Florida, Oklahoma,
- 21:35y'all better come to the it's different.
- 21:37So that's why I was like, that's what made me think about what
- 21:39you brought up the the game. You see?
- 21:41What you can. Do before we get out of here,
- 21:46they put out the bold predictions.
- 21:49Yes, I want to get that too, Yes.
- 21:51And here's some surprising ones that predictions for the College
- 21:55Football Playoff. We'll do that last.
- 22:01Here's the bowl games. OK, the Gasparilla Bowl, Florida
- 22:06versus NC State. Good, that's gracious.
- 22:10The Duke Mayo's Bowl, you're going to hear a familiar name,
- 22:14Tennessee versus Clemson. The Reli Quest Bowl.
- 22:19Sorry, oh pissed, but you playing Bridget Washington?
- 22:22If this holds up, on December 31st, the Texas Bowl, Missouri
- 22:28versus Oklahoma State. Another team with big
- 22:30aspirations that ain't going nowhere is Texas A&M.
- 22:33They could play in the Citrus Bowl against Michigan on the 2nd
- 22:36and then it's back to their regular regularly scheduled
- 22:40programming at Auburn, playing the Liberty Bowl against Kansas,
- 22:46Kansas State. That's right.
- 22:48But here we go. And I saw something on Marty and
- 22:51McGee this week, last weekend where the Alabama coach Caitlin
- 22:55Dubois was on there and oh, man, if they do anything other than
- 22:59make the playoffs so we win the national championship, I think
- 23:02this is his last year in Crimson because he's he was talking
- 23:07about championships and he said, yeah, we played in one last
- 23:12year. I was hoping that we would win
- 23:13it. Talking about the SEC
- 23:14championship game. You know that probably didn't go
- 23:17over too well with Alabama fans who spoiled rotten and think
- 23:20they should be in the national championship every year.
- 23:24All of that to say, if these predictions hold up straight,
- 23:27have fun at the Gator Bowl. Alabama versus Virginia.
- 23:31Right. That's how you bring in a new
- 23:32year, brother. Yeah, Regina look good.
- 23:36Yeah, it might not be your win. But here's where I'm shocked.
- 23:41OK? I'm not shocked that Texas is
- 23:42the number three seed or Georgia, that's the number 5
- 23:47seed. LSU is the #8 seed.
- 23:51Yes. And then Oklahoma had the #9
- 23:54seed. I can live with that.
- 23:56Me too. It's it's for us when we when I
- 24:01found out we were ranked 11th in the polls as very steep like
- 24:05it's week zero, week 1. I mean, you, you can't really
- 24:08take much of anything out of that stuff.
- 24:10But yes, there a lot of people pretty high on the on the squad
- 24:13right now and I understand why I was I got to see how they look,
- 24:17especially nowadays more so than ever because of the constant
- 24:21rotating of the of the But yeah, I got to see how they look.
- 24:26But you know, we did, we talked a lot today and we're going to
- 24:29keep it back to where we we're going with two days a week,
- 24:36short videos, short podcast episodes, you know, but start
- 24:41next week, we'll be back with the breakdown from the Clemson
- 24:45game and then we'll talk about Tech and find something else to
- 24:51talk about because it ain't going to be too much to talk
- 24:52about. Let's be honest.
- 24:58But enjoy the weekend everybody. Have a great day, a great night.
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- 25:11We're going to be doing a lot of these.
- 25:14We're going to have a good time. You know we have some stuff up
- 25:17to sleeve too, but I got to take over with the board 1st.
- 25:20You know, the boss broke down with Kelly in Kiffin, came in,
- 25:25made a delaying train, so we got a few upgrades, you know, and
- 25:30it's just different. So we'll see y'all next time.
- 25:33Peace.